I've seen it a couple of time here in NYC

In a tournament game recently, in a tense endgame, my opponent made a move (picked up a piece, moved it to another square, and released the piece). He then didn't press the clock button. I didn't even notice that latter omission; I thought for a while and then made a move, whereupon he said rather sharply, "You can't move yet. My turn isn't over. I didn't press the clock yet." Um.... OK .......

That was because nothing got done. The major issues facing the board and the federation were ignored, with the board acting like the proverbial ostrich who, when faced with danger, sticks his head in the sand. Sam Sloan

Since when? Remember that it was I, not Donna, who first raised this issue. I brought it up at my first meeting of the board after I had been elected, which was on August 14, 2006. At every one of the five meetings I attended as a member of the board, I raised this issue. I was always promised copies of the documents pertaining to the pension/ profit sharing plan but I never received even one...

Greetings Friends, I am a complete novice when it comes to copyright law. I would like to learn more. I chose a particular example to try and begin to understand. J.R. Capablanca's "Chess Fundamentals" was originally copyrighted in 1921. I see that several revisions of it have been copyrighted since then. Is it true that all US works before 1923 are now public domain? What is the...

In hopes of providing the group with some much-need comic relief, I submit the following link: http://www.flixxy.com/best-rube-goldberg-machine.htm Look for a self-moving chess set about halfway through.

Hi all, The 4th FICGS correspondence chess championship waiting list is open... Tournaments will start on January 8, 2008. Time control is 30 days + 1 day / move. More - http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html#chess_wch The 2nd FICGS chess freestyle cup waiting list is open... This 6 rounds swiss tournament will start on November 24, 2007 - 15:00 server

After weeks, probably months, of reading about how GetClub's success against the Jester program, I finally went to the Web site again (I did not like the graphic chess board before) and played a couple of games. This site (ludochess.com) claims that Jester is the world's strongest Jave chess program, so it seems ludicrous that the games Sanny has presented here are a fair representation of its...

Last 2 days I found players were easily beating the GetClub Chess as there were 2 bugs in the game. Those Bugs has been removed. So it will play better than earlier. Play a Game: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html If you still find weaknesses in the game let me know it. Explain the mistake well So that I understand what to improve. Bye

I had people arguing it wasn't, because the starting positions were picked at random. Anyone here believe Fischer Random Chess is not an abstract strategy game? - Rich

I have been researching the question of habits of mind and culture as being promoted by and/or reflected by certain board games. In particular, I have been investigating whether weiqi/go is representative of the “Asian mind� and whether international chess is representative of the “Western mind.� Apparently, I am not alone in raising this question. Analysts in political and...

With all this lawsuit business and whatnot, I am curious how Mr. Sloan can help improve the state of chess. Mr. Sloan, can you speak up please? - Rich

This conversation started in a monitored newsgroup: Basically, you are on a desert island for a month with a bunch of other chess players and you can take along "4 books: one opening, one tactic, one endgame and one misc" What do you chose? ---

Larry Parr was recently caught retailing a lie regarding what he termed "most scholars" endorsing a bogus claim by his mentor GM Larry Evans, that he and he alone was clever enough and a strong enough chess player to spot deeply hidden "clues" which he says amounted to "proof" of the throwing of games. These "clues", we were told, were deeply embedded in the moves of the games themselves. ...

The USCF Executive Board has decided to hold the February 2008 meeting online over the Internet. There is no way that the general membership will be able to participate. This was because Paul Truong refused to go to California and Bill Goichberg refused to hold the board meeting anywhere other than California, where he lives during the Winter months. I am wondering if it is a violation of the...

Why is this guy ranked so low in the top 20 fide list? His results have to mean something doesn't it? EZoto

Interesting toy to mess with. Interesting to test it with actual performances. http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/aging/chess.htm

Defining 'Destructive Coward' Part One: The Result of 'Not Opposing a Criminal Mind' 18 June 2005 {HRI 20050610-V3.2.3-pi1-V2.2} (part issue 1 * on 6 Nov 2007)

THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS by GM Larry Evans (page 82) Just Testing Two players had their scores erased at the 2004 World Team Championship in Calvia because they refused to comply with a "random" drug test demanded by FIDE. Yet many people wonder why there is any need to enforce Olympic restrictions now that both the International Olympic...

On Nov 4, 4:13 pm, "B. Lafferty" wrote: Why? Does anyone know what his problem is? He made it clear at the USCF EB meeting that he can't enter CA, but refused to say why. This is not entirely true. A state will often refuse to pay the charges to extradite a person from another state. Let us say that you commit a crime in Hawaii and are arrested in Florida. Florida...